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WASHINGTON — The federal government has entered Day 22 of a partial government shutdown , becoming the longest closure in U . S . history . The previous record for the longest shutdown occurred during Bill Clinton’s presidency. That one lasted from December 15, 1995, through January 6

In United States politics, a government shutdown occurs when Congress fails to pass sufficient appropriation bills or continuing resolutions to fund federal government operations and agencies

Cher Muzyk, who marched in yesterday's "Rally to End the Shutdown" outside the White House, poses with her twins at their home in Nokesville, Virginia, on Jan. 11.

Air traffic controllers' union sues over unpaid work during government shutdown

A union that represents thousands of U.S. air traffic controllers filed a lawsuit against the federal government on Friday claiming its failure to pay the workers during an ongoing partial government shutdown could endanger passengers' safety. require(["medianetNativeAdOnArticle"], function (medianetNativeAdOnArticle)
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USA .gov website shutdown on October 15. Federal employees protest the government shutdown at a rally outside of the Capitol. Some agencies and departments—such as the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and Social Security Administration—are funded by long -term or

As shutdown barrels into its third week over Trump’s border wall the weight of that uncertainty is being disproportionately shouldered by black Americans. The profound racial wealth gap in the US makes it far more difficult for the average black American to sustain a long period without a paycheck as

USDA employee Lona Powell, center, holds up her sign as she joins union members and other federal employees rally to call for an end to the shutdown, on Jan. 10, at AFL-CIO Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

President Donald Trump speaks with Border Patrol agents next to Sen. John Cornyn, left, (R-TX) near the Rio Grande after his visit to McAllen Station in Texas, on Jan. 10. Trump traveled to the US-Mexico border as part of his all-out offensive to build a wall, a day after he stormed out of negotiations when Democratic opponents refused to agree to fund the project in exchange for an end to a painful shutdown.

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After news of President Donald Trump walking out of a meeting with Congressional leaders to end the government shutdown , both sides of the aisle had differing opinions of who was at fault. USA TODAY.

That shutdown currently holds the record as the longest in US history . House Democrats spent the week advancing spending bills to reopen shuttered parts of the federal government, but the legislation they have put forward will not include any new money for a wall and has been met with White House

People gather during a federal workers protest rally on Jan. 10 in Ogden, Utah. The shutdown, which will enter its 21st day Friday, will be the longest in history by this weekend and is forcing many American families to make tough decisions.

Government workers rally against the shutdown at Federal Plaza, on Jan. 10 in Chicago. The shutdown continues to drag on with hundreds of thousands of federal workers off the job or working without pay as the border wall fight persists.

President Donald Trump gestures as reporters raise their hands while he speaks to the media on the South Lawn of the White House, Jan. 10, en route for a trip to the border in Texas as the shutdown continues.

A demonstrator holds a sign, signifying hundreds of thousands of federal employees who won’t be receiving their paychecks as a result of the partial government shutdown, during a “Rally to End the Shutdown” in Washington, on Jan. 10.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speak to the news media along with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (L) and Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (R-Rear) as they depart the West Wing after meeting with President Donald Trump about the U.S. government partial shutdown and his demand for a border wall in the Situation Room at the White House in Washington, on Jan 9.

Vice President Mike Pence speaks to reporters with Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise and U.S Senator John Thune (R-SD) after a meeting with President Donald Trump and Congressional Democrats about the U.S. government partial shutdown and the president's demand for a border wall in the Situation Room at the White House in Washington, on Jan. 9.

U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he stands with U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Vice President Mike Pence and other members of the Republican Senate leadership as the president departs after addressing a closed Senate Republican policy lunch while a partial government shutdown enters its 19th day on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Jan. 9.

Federal Aviation Administration employee Michael Jessie, who is currently working without pay as an aviation safety inspector for New York international field office overseeing foreign air carriers, holds a sign while attending a news conference at Newark Liberty International Airport, on Jan. 8, in Newark, N.J.

A police officer and K-9 do a routine security check at the Capitol as the partial government shutdown lurches into a third week with President Trump standing firm in his border wall funding demands, in Washington, on Jan. 7.

President Trump is applauded by members of Congress and other attendees as he says he will not answer questions from reporters about an impending U.S. Government shutdown during a bill signing ceremony for the “First Step Act” and the “Juvenile Justice Reform Act” in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on Dec. 21.

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Shutdown Has Personally Affected 21 Percent of US: Poll

And 46 percent of Americans "know someone who is personally affected."

US federal workers have held protests calling for the partial shutdown to end. Tomorrow, the partial closure of the government will become the longest in US history . Even some lawmakers in the US President's Republican Party are wavering in their support for the president as the shutdown causes

President Donald Trump said he was prepared to continue the partial government shutdown for "months or even years" — and as the closure drags into its third week, he's getting closer to making good on that threat.

WASHINGTON — The partial government shutdown became the longest closure in U.S. history at when the clock ticked past midnight Friday as President Donald Trump and nervous Republicans scrambled to find a way out of the mess.

The House and Senate voted to give federal workers back pay whenever the federal government reopens and then left town for the weekend, leaving the shutdown on track to become one for the record books once the clock struck midnight and the closure entered its 22nd day. And while Trump privately considered one dramatic escape route — declaring a national emergency to build the wall without a new stream of cash from Congress — members of his own party were fiercely debating that idea, and the president urged Congress to come up with another solution.

"What we're not looking to do right now is national emergency," Trump said. He insisted that he had the authority to do that, adding that he's "not going to do it so fast" because he'd still prefer to work a deal with Congress.

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United States US . International INTL. Deutschland DE. Rand Paul in February, recent shutdowns have averaged 11 days. The longest shutdown in history , lasting 21 days, came in 1995-1996. The current shutdown also bears some major differences from the past because federal employees Sending employees home has become more frequent in recent shutdowns , with furloughs occurring

If the US Congress fails to pass a spending bill by midnight on Friday many important government functions will come to a standstill.

About 800,000 workers missed paychecks Friday, many receiving blank pay statements. Some posted photos of their empty earnings statements on social media as a rallying cry to end the shutdown, a jarring image that many in the White House feared could turn more voters against the president as he holds out for billions in new wall funding.

With polls showing Trump getting most of the blame for the shutdown, the administration accelerated planning for a possible emergency declaration to try to get around Congress and fund the wall from existing sources of federal revenue. The White House explored diverting money for wall construction from a range of other accounts. One idea being considered was diverting some of the $13.9 billion allocated to the Army Corps of Engineers after last year's deadly hurricanes and floods.

That option triggered an outcry from officials in Puerto Rico and some states recovering from natural disasters, and appeared to lose steam on Friday.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom called it an "unconscionable" idea to look at using disaster assistance "to pay for an immoral wall that America doesn't need or want."

Republican Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas told reporters after discussions with the White House: "I feel confident disaster relief dollars will not be tapped." Brady said the administration was looking at the "breadth" of unspent dollars in other government accounts.

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Getty US Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (L) and US President Bill Clinton (R) begin a bi-partisan meeting on the stalled budget talks at the White The partial federal government shutdown has stretched to 19 days, as of January 9. It has become the second- longest government shutdown in

The third partial shutdown of the United States government in 2018 began at midnight EST, on the morning of Saturday, December 22, 2018 and is ongoing.

Despite Trump's go-slow message, momentum grew in some corners for some sort of emergency declaration. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who met with the president on Friday, took to Twitter afterward to urge: "Mr. President, Declare a national emergency NOW. Build a wall NOW."

Trump has been counseled by outside advisers to move toward a national emergency declaration, but many in the White House are trying to pump the brakes. Senior aide Jared Kushner, who traveled with the president to the Texas border on Thursday, was among those opposed to the declaration, arguing to the president that pursuing a broader immigration deal was a better option. A person familiar with White House thinking said that in meetings this week, the message was that the administration is in no rush and wants to consider various options. The person was unauthorized to discuss private sessions and spoke on condition of anonymity.

'Wall Won't Get Built' If Trump Declares Emergency

“I would hate to see it,” Republican Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin said. "I would prefer not, primarily because, if we do that, it's going to go to court."

If the shutdown persists for another two weeks, the cost to the US economy will exceed billion - more than the .7 billion Trump is asking of The few federal employees left at HUD have been scouring the books, looking for a last-minute solution to fund hundreds of affordable housing contracts

US President Donald Trump’s prime-time address offered no hope for a quick end to a government partial shutdown triggered by the wall funding row. Just after midnight Saturday, at Day 22, the shutdown would become be the longest in US history . After Tuesday’s stand-off, setting that record

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has signaled moral opposition to the wall and vowed to oppose any funding, said the president is seeking to divert attention from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and other White House problems.

"This isn't a wall between Mexico and the United States. This is a wall between his failures of his administration," Pelosi told reporters. "This is a big diversion, and he's a master of diversion."

Although Trump has been frustrated with aides as he loses the public relations battle over the shutdown, White House attempts to use the trappings of the presidency to buttress his case for the wall have yielded mixed results in the president's view.

Trump has long avoided using the Oval Office as a backdrop for his speeches, telling aides that previous presidents looked stilted and "flat" in the standard, straight-ahead camera angle. But he was persuaded that the seriousness of the moment warranted the Oval Office for his speech to the nation this week about the fight over the border wall.

But since Tuesday night's address, Trump has complained that he looked lifeless and boring, according to a Republican close to the White House who was not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations. The president also expressed misgivings about his visit to the border, believing it would do little to change anyone's mind.

In a Friday morning tweet, Trump called illegal immigration on the southern border "an invasion," even though border crossings have declined in recent years. Later, he tried to blame Democrats for the shutdown, claiming he's flexible about the needed barrier.

"I don't care what they name it," Trump said. "They can name it 'peaches.'"

Trump has told advisers he believes the fight for the wall — even if it never yields the requested funding — is a political win for him.

What happens in a partial government shutdown? Smithsonian museums, National Zoo close doors

The Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo in Washington, DC, closed their doors Wednesday as the partial government shutdown entered its 12th day. The 19 museums in the Smithsonian Institution's collection and the National Zoo initially remained open during the shutdown, which started on December 22. In a tweet on December 27, the institution said the museums and zoo would close Wednesday, January 2 if there was no deal to fund the government passed into law and signed by President Donald Trump.

It's the longest shutdown in U . S . history : 21 days. The government shut down after Clinton vetoed the spending bill proposed by the Republican-controlled Congress. After a long three weeks, the president and Congress agreed to a seven-year budget plan, which included "modest spending cuts

But some of his outside advisers have urged him to declare a national emergency, believing it would have two benefits: First, it would allow him to claim that he was the one to act to reopen the government. Second, inevitable legal challenges would send the matter to court, allowing Trump to continue the fight for the wall — and continue to excite his supporters — while not actually closing the government or immediately requiring him to start construction.

Such a move could put Republicans in a bind. While it might end the standoff over funding and allow Congress to move onto other priorities, some Republicans believe such a declaration would usurp congressional power and could lead future Democratic presidents to make similar moves to advance liberal priorities.

Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., a leader of the conservative House Freedom Caucus who speaks to Trump frequently, said that unless Republicans and Democrats strike an unlikely compromise, "I fully expect him to declare a national emergency."

"Most conservatives want it to be the last resort he would use," Meadows said. "But those same conservatives, I'm sure if it's deployed, would embrace him as having done all he could do to negotiate with Democrats."

Many Democrats, meanwhile, say they have little reason to give into Trump's demand for border wall funding since taking control of the House in the midterm elections.

"The American people gave us the majority based on our comprehensive approach to this problem and they rejected President Trump's," said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.

What happens in a partial government shutdown? Smithsonian museums, National Zoo close doors.
The Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo in Washington, DC, closed their doors Wednesday as the partial government shutdown entered its 12th day. The 19 museums in the Smithsonian Institution's collection and the National Zoo initially remained open during the shutdown, which started on December 22. In a tweet on December 27, the institution said the museums and zoo would close Wednesday, January 2 if there was no deal to fund the government passed into law and signed by President Donald Trump.

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